Persistent environmental contamination with USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic strain types in households with s. aureus skin infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1373-1382

  Eells, Samantha J ^a,b,c   David, Michael Z ^d   Taylor, Alexis ^d   Ortiz, Nancy ^a   Kumar, Neha ^d   Sieth, Julia ^d   Boyle Vavra, Susan ^d   Daum, Robert S ^d   Miller, Loren G ^a,b  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CALIFORNIA; CLASSIFICATION; FAMILY SIZE; FOMITE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOUSING; ILLINOIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHICAGO; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EXOTOXINS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FOMITES; GENOTYPE; HOUSING; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOS ANGELES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908335109     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/678414     Document Type: Article

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